Ice Cream Man chords by Tom Waits

• Key: Dm

**ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**
           =============

 -- comp. Tom Waits (from _Closing_Time_) ["transcr." tcg, '86]
   -- 4/4 // Key of Dm (transposed from Cm) // Allegro [except Intro]
   -- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat

 CHORDS--
     Dm     Dm<c bass> BbM7     Bb7      A+       A7+      Gm7      A7
     xxo___   x_x___   x_x___   x_x___   xox___   xoxo__   _x____   xoxo_o
   1 |||||1   |||||1   |1===1   |1=1=1   |||||1   |||||1   ||||||   ||||||
     |||2||   |||2||   |||2||   ||||||   |||23|   ||||2|   ||||||   ||2|3|
     ||||3|   |3||4|   ||||3|   ||||3|   ||||||   ||||||   1=1111   ||||||
     ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||

 INTRO: (Moderately: ad-lib arpeggios [piano, really])
   Dm  /  Dm<c>  /  BbM7  /  A+  [5x ... 5th x, move A+ fingering up every
                                  2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]
 (quicker tempo:)
   Dm / Dm<c> / Bb7 / A7+ / [2x]

 VERSE 1:
          Dm       /       Dm<c>  /    Bb7   /   A7+  /
 Well..
  Dm  /    Dm<c>      /  Bb7   /   A7+  /
 Sidewalk ..
          Dm     /  /    / Gm7   /   /   /
 I ..
    A7   /     /      /       A7+ /    /    /
 A big ..

 CHORUS:
             Dm    /   Dm<c>  /  Bb7   /   A7+  /
 'Cuz ..
       Dm   /  Dm<c>   /  Bb7   /   A7+  /
 I'm ..
        Dm    /   Dm<c> /     Bb7   /  A7+  /  Dm  /  Dm<c> /  Bb7 / A7+ /
 I'm ...

 VERSE 2:
         Dm     /      Dm<c>   /    Bb7    /   A7+   /
 If ..
  Dm   /     Dm<c>  /   Bb7   /  A7+  /
 Come ..
              Dm   /           /      /       Gm7      /      /    /
 When ..
  A7  /         /       /     A7+ /    /    /
 Got ..

 CHORUS

 LEAD TACIT {"over" Verse chords}

 CHORUS

 VERSE 3:
         Dm  / Dm<c>       /        Bb7  /   A7+    /
 If ..
  Dm    /     Dm<c> /     Bb7 /  A7+    /
 Don't ..
   Dm     /        /     /     Gm7   /   /    /
 Show ..
  A7       /       /   /         A7+    /      /    /
 Feed ..
                           [no Freudian stuff in THIS song, by God!]

 CHORUS
                      Dm  /  Dm<c> /  Bb7  /  A7+  /  Dm / Dm<c> /
 [... I'll ...]             --Be ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /  Dm / Dm<c> /
                                        --Be ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                               --Good ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                               --Good ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                               --Good ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                               --Good ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                               --Good ..--
                                      Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                               --Good ..--
                                      Bb7   /  A7+  /  Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                    --I'll ..--
                                      Bb7   /       A7+  /  Dm   / Dm<c> /
                                         --I'll ..-- [...fade]

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  | Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion)  |
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  |     nobody's business but my   \ (=o=/    own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_)  |
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